UnderWorld


An urban fantasy RPG¸ along the lines of the television seriesNeverwhereby Neil Gaiman or the television seriesBeauty and the Beastby Ron Koslow. It is set in and below the New York City subway system¸ which were somehow manipulated to run along magical ley lines (""The Radiance""). It uses a rules-light system of coin flipping¸ built for play in either tabletop or live-action mode. It uses class-based character creation. Character creation involves choosing 1 of 9 Breeds¸ 1 of 10 Guilds¸ 3 Defining Traits¸ 3 Secondary Skills from the Guild list¸ and choosing starting equipment. The Breeds range from intelligent animals to magical robots to wandering immortals. Guilds are roughly professions. - A description from https://darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/ with kind permission of John H. Kim
Deep below the streets of New York City¸ there exists a world of wonder and adventure¸ unseen by those above. Magic courses like blood through veins made from steel tracks and transformers. The UnderWorld is home to the Homeless¸ to the Freaks¸ to the Junkmen and more. Steely-eyed Bravos hunt their prey in dark tunnels far below the subways¸ while brave Taggers scout paths between the varied Domains¸ and mark the trails for all to follow. Creatures of Legend walk the platforms below the city¸ and brilliant Artificers build inventions of bizarre science¸ borne of madness. This is a world of heroes and villains...of magic and romance...of gods and monsters. Unseen¸ unknown¸ and unforgettable. UnderWorld is an adventure game¸ usable for either table-top or live-action play. The game was the subject of a weekly column about game design that ran on RPGnet¸ attracting over 10¸000 readers per week.